sticky shift key + PC Support

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From: Jim Mercer
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 18:47

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[ forgive the massive crosspost, followups directed to
 comp.sys.ibm.pc.networking and comp.protocols.ibm ]

in our shop we have roughly 50 PC's running IBM PC Support with Novell
on ethernet.

the configuration uses (in order of loading)

LSL/ODI (Novell)
IPXPKT  (Packet driver)
ODINSUP (NDIS emulation over ODI)
NETBIND (activate NDIS drivers)

we are using the Extended DOS version of PC Supprt V2R2

the bulk of the machine running this are Compaq Prolinea's running 
Compaq MS-DOS 5.0.

recently, we started adding Dell's running MS-DOS 6.0 and ALR PowerFlex PC's
running MS-DOS 5.0.

the PC's being added have largely been operating stand alone for 
quite some time and are being integrated into the network.

the problem arises specifically on ALR's, not the Dell's or Compaqs

the problem is that the status of the shift key gets toggled intermittently.

this only happens on ALRs that are running with PC Support.

if we boot them up with the same disk, but do not load the PC Support
terminal emulation programs, we do not get the sticky shift key problem.

if we boot them up with just ODI/paket driver (no NDIS emulation)
we do not get the problem.

is anyone else out there having a similar problem?

thanx


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[ Jim Mercer   Reptilian Research  merce@iguana.reptiles.org  +1 416 506-0654 ]
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From: jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer)
Subject: sticky shift key + PC Support
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Organization: Reptilian Research, Toronto, Canada
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 18:47:47 GMT
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